Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 317: Quester Morale Meltdown

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Date: 6:42:42 PM, August 19th, 2006.

Metal Man (GM): EEEEEEEEEEEEE MISSIO/n
Questers are at the big room, as usual, having selected mission 1 for their mission.

Digifanatic: .oO(Finally back in this silly thing...)

Gibby: "So what's all this about a mysterious pentagon thingy?" *He scratches his head and looks up at Metal. *

Dragoshi: *Leaning against the wall, waiting for Metal to mention the mission details.*

Digifanatic: "Well, there was a such pentagon a couple of hundred miles from where I lived before I did this... it was a military center of sorts."

Scott Gibson is standing with his guitar slung over his shoulder.

Trigger sits down in in a chair and justs listens in.

Digifanatic: "I don't know whether to say if there's a connection or not. Probably not.
Hang on."

Metal Man: "Well, I'm not too certain myself what it's about, but it's purported to involve some sort of plot. I don't know who's all involved, but we're going to find out exactly what it is."

The Ninja: "So then I leaps in the air and but his head off. Teach he to question honor of long distance service."

Dragoshi: "...Wrong pentagon, kid." *Chuckles, holding his carrying case with his scythe in it.*

Scott Gibson: "Wasn't there a building on Earth that held the military power of one country?"

Digifanatic: "What I just said."

Scott Gibson: "My bad. My bad."

Gibby: "Huh... I just hope it has nothing to do with witch craft, or that strange stuff they talk about all the time."

Metal Man: "It's just a pentagonal mark in the ground."

Trigger: "For summoning crap?"

Digifanatic: "Ah, alright."

Dragoshi: "See? What'd I say?"

Aetos: "The UN?"
*He shakes his head.*

Dragoshi: "You mean like the kind used for demonic summonings?"

Digifanatic takes a glance over at the axe-slinger, a Quester whom Digi has not seen before. "I see you've entered this joint recently."

Scott Gibson: "So long as it's a 'pentagon' and not a 'pentagram' we should be fine."

Digifanatic: "Heh..."

Gibby: "I guess a quick look wouldn't do us any harm." *Famous last words...*

Scott Gibson: "Yep."

Metal Man: "Anyway, it's not much of a mission, but somebody's willing to foot the bill, so. Come out there, check it out, maybe drink some beers, then come back."

Digifanatic: "How have you found this place so far?"

Scott Gibson: "There always is."

Metal Man: "Mostly empty and silent. Very quiet."

Aetos scratches his head at Digi... ever soo... "DIGI! Do you remember that show Fooly Cooly?!"

Editor's Note: Ow, my brain. The show is somehow a show but also something real to Scott Gibson? This is why I control what people can reference in modern SSQ...

Scott Gibson: "What he said. Hoping to liven things up though."

Trigger presses a couple of buttons on his arm and his Buster gun starts to form on his wrist.

The Ninja: "I bring sake!"

Metal Man looks at the map. "Nothing to even accidentally destroy."

Digifanatic: "Never heard of it, Aetos."

Gibby: "Well then... lets get this over with."

Metal Man: "The warp thing's online, if you're level."

Aetos stomps on the ground.

Scott Gibson: "Time to rock'n'roll!"
*He heads to the warp elevator.*

Gibby nods and wobbles into the elevator.

Trigger walks over to the warp.

Digifanatic: *Following Scott* "So, yeah, you heard me replyin' to the guy."

The Ninja: "Fooly Cooly. Sounds dirty."
*He leaps into the warp.*

Trigger: "Heh."

Dragoshi: "Yea. Does sound dirty."

Aetos mutters and goes too.

Dragoshi enters the elevator.

Trigger enters the elevator.

Scott Gibson walks in the warp thingy.

Metal Man scratches his chin. "Weird name... but not as weird as The Void has told me about."

Metal Man (GM): You fly through, again, the white realm, on your way to the Pentagon.

Aetos is boggled. How do The Void and Metal talk to eachother? He shrugs it off.

Editor's Note: Well in case one is still boggled, as they inhabited the same body, much like one would talk to one's self in the mind, only there being multiple voices there. Naturally this was not something that helped Xavier much as having something as deranged as The Void in your mind means something as simple as picking what ice cream flavor to eat is interrupted with thoughts like "WHAT ABOUT ANTIMATTER FLAVORED ICE CREAM???"

Metal Man (GM): Then you arrive in an about tennis-court sized area made of stone and shaped in a Pentagon.

Scott Gibson: "Whoa, weird."

Trigger: "Hmmm..."

Digifanatic: *Still to Scott* "As he said, I'm that 'Digi' person, which is actually short for Digifanatic, the alias of which I'm most known for here. My real name is Ian, and you are?"

Gibby: "And here we are..."

The Ninja: "...Someone has too much free time."

Scott Gibson: "Scott Gibson."

Dragoshi: "Reminds of a temporary home I once had."

Metal Man (GM): It's surrounded by a greenish field. The ruined Quester Hunter HQ sits off in the distance.
While it's a landmark, it isn't much of one.

Editor's Note: Geez, I should count how many times the Questers went to this danged place. It's like a national landmark.

Gibby: "...So... what do we do?"

Trigger: "Ohh, good time for a photo op."

Digifanatic: "Ah... Is the guitar thing a coincidence?"

Scott Gibson: "Nope."

The Ninja goes to work as he decides to sense anyone around. or anything.

Scott Gibson: "Supposedly my realm is a TV show here."

Trigger: "I remember that show now!"

Digifanatic: "What do you mean by that?"

Metal Man (GM): Roll again, if you want.
You can have the 29.
'Cause you sense nobody and nothing here.
In fact, it seems unnatural--no wildlife, either.
It's dead silent here.

Scott Gibson: "The place I come from has a TV show made after it in this realm near as I can tell."

Aetos taps his foot.

Trigger: "This place seems... artificial."

The Ninja: "...So. Who up for drinking game?"

Scott Gibson: "Yo!"

Gibby: "...Well -this- stinks!"

Trigger: "Wha?"

Metal Man (GM): Far off, you hear a single twig snap.

Digifanatic: "...Right."

Scott Gibson: "Name it?"

Dragoshi: "...Yep... Place is silent enough that it looks like something out of a zombie horror film."

Gibby sits on the floor.

Trigger: "Hmmm?"

Scott Gibson: "Hm?!"

Gibby: "Now I'm bored... lets just go back."

Aetos sighs and looks over to the sound's direction.

The Ninja has the Sake out when he hears the snap. "...Who dares ruin drink game?"

Metal Man (GM): Just a bunch of bushes.

Dragoshi: "Fuh?" *Tries to discern where it came from.* (Listen Check?)

Digifanatic: "Well, nice meeting you anyway. Good luck with us."

Metal Man (GM): No need; you can tell nothing's there.

Gibby lies on the ground and looks up at the sky.

Scott Gibson: "Same."

Digifanatic extends his hand very orthodoxly, it's only proper...

Metal Man (GM): You see... a white aura on the points of the pentagon.

Gibby: "Boredy bored, bored, bored... bored."

Aetos walks over to the bushes.

Metal Man (GM): Nothing in them.

Scott Gibson: "We can talk more later."

Dragoshi: "...What the...?"

Scott Gibson: "Anyone else seeing this?"

Metal Man (GM): Hmmm... pentagon... pentagram... what are the chances of them both being nearly the same?

The Ninja: "...A light. Better not walk there."

Scott Gibson steps back from the penta-thingy.

Digifanatic: "No problem..."

Gibby blinks and looks towards the white aura.

Trigger: "You think something is summoning its self here?"

Gibby: "...Something interesting?"

Metal Man (GM): The points link together to surround the other Questers, before then five brilliant pillars of light strike the points.

Digifanatic steps back as well a bit...

Gibby: "GAH!"

Trigger steps back.

Metal Man (GM): Before you... stands the Mages Council.

Scott Gibson: "Holy...!"

Gibby: "...Hi."

Trigger: "Whoa!!"

Scott Gibson: "...Who the hell are these guys?"

Metal Man (GM): Nadra Liah, in her red robes. Jin, the house-eating maniac.

Aetos looks left and right... .oO(So many equal expressions.)

The Ninja: "...Uh oh. Aribar in trouble."

Gibby: "M-m-mages Council..."

Dragoshi: "...I swear, if this like that p-Woah!"

Metal Man (GM): You also see a strange psychic man...

The Ninja: "Oh! But I did bring menus for magic users!"

Dragoshi: "..."

Metal Man (GM): A guy who looks like a former Kuja soldier...
And another man wearing Atlantean robes.

Gibby gets himself back up and dusts himself off.

Aetos: "Are you... all that make up the council?"

Metal Man (GM): The last man to appear stands at the triangular point, and apparently is the head of the council. He bows, before speaking.

Dragoshi: "...?"

Scott Gibson stands slightly defensively since he doesn't know these guys.

Digifanatic: "Strange... as usual."

The Ninja: "So which one of yous wanted Burger Menu?"

Tirk Tovnic: "Greetings, from the Mages Council. I am their leader, Tirk Tovnic."

Aetos pauses... Atlantean... Kuja... Psychic... Hrm.

Gibby: "Ninja, shush!"

Trigger: "Hmmm..."

Tirk Tovnic: "Seeing as we couldn't properly meet you during another mission, we decided to lure you here with the promise of money."

Scott Gibson: "Uh, who are these guys?!"

Gibby: "Heh... that'll usually do it."

Trigger: "Yep..."

Metal Man (GM): He takes out a bag full of money and dangles it at you all, before dropping it on his feet. It spills out, sending coins everywhere.

Gibby: "Oooo... shiny..." $_$

The Ninja: "Got anything better than money?"

Dragoshi: "..."

Tirk Tovnic: "Now, I believe I haven't properly introduced our purpose..."

Digifanatic: "I'm not greedy, like those guys..."

Tirk Tovnic: "We are to prevent a resurgence of what you see behind you."

Scott Gibson: "Or yourself for that matter."

Trigger starts to foam at the mouth after seeing all the money.

Metal Man (GM): He waves an arm, pointing at the ruined Quester Hunter headquarters.

Scott Gibson turns and looks before turning back.

Dragoshi: *Facepalms at Gibby's expression* "Yes, that you haven't. And, I'm not greedy either, I was rather curiou-Resurgence? Of what?"

Tirk Tovnic: "Either by coincidence or bad fate, they usually come from you types defecting and losing your mind."

Aetos: "Of what you see behind you, punk!"
*He points to the QH building.*

Digifanatic: "Bad Fate."

Gibby looks over at QH headquarters, and then back at the council. "...Losing our mind?"

The Ninja: "Usually?"

Dragoshi: *To Aetos*"...Fuh?"

Tirk Tovnic: "The Quester Hunters created a massive hole and allowed an interdimensional warlord to wreak havoc on the world."

Trigger looks at the QH building.

Aetos sighs.

Scott Gibson: "?"

Trigger: "Umm, not good?"

Gibby nods to this.

Digifanatic: "Yeah."

Dragoshi: "...Wait, wait, wait. Did you say INTERDIMENSIONAL?"

The Ninja: "And who is that, Magic man?"

Aetos blinks.

Trigger: "Craptastic."

Tirk Tovnic: "Tsk... tsk... tsk... you don't know your own history?"

Digifanatic: "I thought I heard that."

Aetos sighs.

Scott Gibson: "Sorry bud, just got here."

Trigger: "Same here."

The Ninja: "I'm too busy studying present."

Tirk Tovnic: "...I guess all the good ones retired after that faux pas."

Dragoshi: "Just got here as well."

Gibby: "HEY!"

Aetos: "Excuse you?"

Gibby took offense to that.

Aetos did as well.

Trigger: "What?"

Metal Man (GM): He holds one hand to his head before explaining slowly, in a strained voice.

Dragoshi twitches at Tirk's remark.
*Then retains calm.*

Tirk Tovnic: "...Long ago, Questers who wanted nothing more than... money..." *Nudges the pile of coins* "Defected for more money."

Digifanatic stays calm as well.

Dragoshi: "I see..."

Tirk Tovnic: "...And... then they wound up destroying part of the barrier which keeps dimensions separate."

Scott Gibson: "Figures."

Tirk Tovnic: "...Then... Kuja Tribal came in and destroyed all the peace."

Trigger: "So you're saying Questers were mercs?"

Gibby: "...Because of greed?"

The Ninja: "Ah. So greed was the wrong doer here."

Dragoshi: "...That appears to be the case..."

Tirk Tovnic: "Most of them retired after erasing him and their evil alter-egos, with good reason."

Digifanatic: *Facepalm* "Sadly, it usually is."

Scott Gibson relaxes and listens.

Tirk Tovnic: "Fear that anything they did later on would only be another Kuja situation."

Gibby: "I don't think I'm -greedy- per say... I just like money."

The Ninja: "That is way one must focus on personal state of being."

Aetos covers his face. .oO(Must they all comment on every sentence he makes?)

Editor's Note: Well, it IS a role playing game, rather than a movie, Aetos. Just to be fair.

Tirk Tovnic: "Now... you have a choice."

Digifanatic: "And that is?"

Metal Man (GM): He scoops up the money and holds it in one hand.
In another he holds absolutely nothing.

Dragoshi: "..." *Waits, and leans back.*

Tirk Tovnic: "You may give up your lost cause and retire, making about twenty trillion coins each..."

Scott Gibson: "..."

Tirk Tovnic: "Or continue on and receive absolutely nothing from us."

Gibby: "..."

Trigger: "..."

Gibby: "D-did you say... trillion? With a T?"

Scott Gibson: "Nice severance pay but I've got better things to do."

Aetos keeps his face covered.

The Ninja: "Nah. Retirement boring. Plus you lose skill to fast and become fat."

Digifanatic is not fazed at all at this...

Tirk Tovnic: "We have the money. All we need is your signatures."

Scott Gibson: "Screw it... I ain't signing shit."

Gibby: "Twenty -trillion- coins... woah..."

Trigger: "Well, you can count me out."

Digifanatic: "Yeah. I can wait to retire from this as well."

Tirk Tovnic: "A shame." *He holds up the bag... and... before he can do anything, a shot rings out and it's hit from an unseen sniper!*

Metal Man (GM): A bunch of... bottle caps fall out.

Dragoshi: *Eyes turn red*"...No way in all nine HELLS I am retiring. If if it was for TWICE THAT..."

Trigger: "!!"

Scott Gibson: "What the!?"

Gibby: "...Bottle caps?"

Tirk Tovnic: "...What was that?"

Dragoshi: "...Heh."

Digifanatic: "Right."

Aetos steps up to Tovnic. "Just... what are you trying to pull here, pal? You wanted us out of the way for something."

Tirk Tovnic: "...You do not understand. My plan was to save you from your doom... and then that happened. Lower the elevator!"

The Ninja: "What was the sound of a gun, Magic man."

Metal Man (GM): The elevator... ... as in, the entire Pentagon thing... starts going down.

Gibby: "Hey wait! What's going on here?"

Tirk Tovnic: "It wasn't us. We must get out of here. Don't try to escape, whoever did that is out to kill us."

Metal Man (GM): The other members duck. A bullet whizzes over Gibby's head.

Aetos doesn't trust this. These people... are suspiciously alike... he thinks they resemble something else... or some other people.

Digifanatic: "Okay."

Gibby: "MEEP!"
*He curls into a ball.*

Metal Man (GM): You start going deeper in the earth on the pentagonal elevator.

Tirk Tovnic: "I wasn't expecting to have to do this, but it appears we're under attack by something... strange."

The Ninja: "...Shouldn't we find out what shot at us? Like look in direction of it?"

Metal Man (GM): *PING* A shot pegs one of them in the arm... even as a cover above begins to close.

Tirk Tovnic: "...They could kill you from a mile away. Sensors indicate they killed our guards so fast their heart monitors didn't register their deaths."

Aetos: "Some kind of... strange animal, with weapons?... that's my guess."

Gibby: "...Holy crap!"

Digifanatic: "Whoa."

Scott Gibson: "Dammit!"

Metal Man (GM): *PING* *PING* The cover above takes several dents.
Nadra looks at the bullet wound in her arm... then falls over.

Tirk Tovnic: "...Poisoned."

Aetos: "That's new."

The Ninja: "I'm impressed. They must be ninjas."

Scott Gibson: "Someone get them out of here or to cover!"

Digifanatic: "Oh my..."

Gibby: "...Ninjas with guns?"

Trigger: "..."

Metal Man (GM): The healer runs over to heal her, as Tirk stands with his back to you all. You are now going down a glass elevator shaft... into an insanely high-tech cave.

Trigger: "I've seen it."

Aetos: "These mages can protect themselves, if not all of us..."

Scott Gibson: "The rest of us need to find where those shots are coming from and attack!"

Gibby looks around at the cave.

Tirk Tovnic: "They're not going to give up. You're going to have to help us, if you want to live..."

Metal Man (GM): You see a pentagonal shaped base, filled with computers and people.
They appear to be coordinating the base. Alarms are going off everywhere.

Digifanatic: "Not a problem. We still hate the Hunters, so this shouldn't be too big a deal."

Gibby just stares in awe.

Trigger: "Yeah."

Metal Man (GM): The platform exits the shaft and lands in the very middle of the base.

The Ninja: "I was just afraid Aribar made them mad from time we turn Sky Sober in unusual way."

Scott Gibson: "Nice."

Metal Man (GM): A man wearing glasses runs up.

Dragoshi: "...?"

???: "Sir! The subject... it's already compromised entryway 1B!"

Digifanatic: "Speaking of, anyone know where he's been lately? Aribar, that is..."

Aetos squints his eyes at him.

???: "It wants... the Questers?"

Gibby gulps.
"It's always -us- they want..."

Metal Man (GM): It looks like a general techno-guy, carrying printouts from line printers.

Trigger: "...It's like Nemesis..."

Dragoshi: "...On steroids."

Scott Gibson: "We're game... Bring it."

???: "I'm afraid they'll have to fight it. We can't take it on without needless losses."

Digifanatic: "When aren't we wanted?"

Tirk Tovnic: "You heard the man. This way." *He walks forward, motioning to a door, labeled 1-B.*

Gibby follows Tirk to the door.

Tirk Tovnic: "You must stop them. They're on their way to our nuclear facility."

Digifanatic follows.

Scott Gibson moves in that direction.

The Ninja: "Oh! Sounds like we're setting up trap."

Dragoshi: *Follows.*

Scott Gibson: "Sonnuva bitch!"

Editor's Note: He keeps saying that so often that I can't help but imagine Scott Gibson is actually Joseph Joestar now. Then again, suddenly having to run from a dangerous foe is also a lot like Stardust Crusaders, in a way.

Tirk Tovnic: "If they get to that, more than just you will die."

Trigger follows after Dragoshi."

Metal Man (GM): He opens a metal door. You hear shots ringing out.

Tirk Tovnic: "They've bypassed security systems. You must go."

Aetos follows. .oO(I trust they will help, somehow...)

Gibby: "Right!"

Metal Man (GM): He points, as you walk down a boilerplate-floored cave section.

Gibby nods to Tirk and makes his way inside.

Scott Gibson: "Time to rock this town!"

Digifanatic: "Sure."

Metal Man (GM): You make your way onto a catwalk, over an even larger facility.

Digifanatic continues on.

Dragoshi: "...Whatever. This is merely another day at work for me." *Follows Gibby.*

Metal Man (GM): It appears to be a nuclear plant.

Trigger follows the others in.

Scott Gibson unslings his guitar tosssing it and catching it in hand.

The Ninja hands Tirk a Menu, then goes poof in a cloud of smoke.

Scott Gibson follows.

Gibby unsheaths his sword and glances around from time to time.

Metal Man (GM): There's guards and men everywhere. Shots ring out near an open door, killing people left and right.

Trigger presses some buttons on his arm and his T. Buster starts to form on his arm.

Metal Man (GM): You go to hide, though it doesn't work quite so well.

Aetos: "More than one. It wouldn't be Shadow The Hedgehog."

Trigger: "Umbrella?"

Metal Man (GM): A single person, silhouetted by light behind it, walks from the open door to face you all, shoving a man over the railing of the same catwalk you're on.

Dragoshi: *Opens up his case, pulls out the scythe and puts the case away in a few swift motions* "Doubt it, Trig."

???: "...So... you are the Questers, right?"

Scott Gibson: "Doesn't matter, they're all enemies so they get no quarter."

Gibby stops in his tracks.

Scott Gibson: "That's us, m'man!"

Trigger: "Who are you!"

Dragoshi: "I seriously, seriously doubt it, Trig. Oh, and yes, we are. And, you are...?"

Metal Man (GM): The voice sounds very deep and echo-y, almost like Darth Vader.

Aetos: "...Only one... but my statement remains true."

???: "Then it is about time I killed you all."

The Ninja: "I can be when needed."

Aetos: "Possibly another ghost-king or whatever."

Gibby: "Get in line..."

Metal Man (GM): You hear a rifle load, and the person point it straight at you all.

Scott Gibson: "Fat chance asswipe!"

Trigger: "Shit!"

Dragoshi: "I've heard that before, now get in line and take a goddamn number."

Gibby: "...Or cut to the head of the line, that works also."

Dragoshi: "Yea. That too."

The Ninja: "I bet he's useless without weapon."

???: "Show me your pathetic fighting technique."

Metal Man (GM): ??? BATTLE

Trigger: "Hey Drago, if we make it out of this I wanna ask you something back at HQ, ok?"

Metal Man (GM): Questers vs. ???

Gibby: "I wouldn't underestimate Mr. Tall, Dark, and Creepy."

Digifanatic: "Don't say anything yet, Ninjas..."

Dragoshi: "Don't underestimate him, Ninja. Or you'll look like an idiot. And, okay, Trig..."

Metal Man (GM): MNT checks for reaction-rate.

???: "Your power is nothing against me. You'd be better off killing yourselves."

Trigger: "...Nah."

Scott Gibson: "As if."

Gibby just rolls his eyes.

The Ninja: "I could. But I might miss and kill you."

Digifanatic: .oO(And the villains are apparently as still as cocky, as arrogant, and as annoying as they were before.)

Dragoshi: "...Look. I have no bloody Idea who you are, but I've heard that one too many times even BEFORE I was a Quester..."

???: "But... you don't know what a Quester is. They all died."

Aetos raises an eyebrow.

Scott Gibson: "Cut the villain bullshit and fight us head on you pansy!"

Dragoshi: "...Heh. And, I presume you do?"

The Ninja then takes the time, to flip open the Dex to scan the unknown person.

Metal Man (GM): Your dex... fails to register anything.

Gibby: "What are you talking about? We're obviously not dead."

The Ninja: "...My Dex crashed. Could someone fix it?"

Metal Man (GM): Being the fastest at reacting, ??? uses its turn to line up a shot and fire at Scott's right shoulder with high precision.

Trigger trys to push Scott out of the way.

Scott Gibson: "!"

Metal Man (GM): AGI check, Trigger.
Trigger goes 'NOOOOOOOO' and moves too slow, as Scott is pegged in the shoulder for 50 damage.

Trigger: "Damn, sorry Scott."

Scott Gibson flies back screaming with holes in his right shoulder.

Gibby: "Grr... that's it! Now you've done it!"

The Ninja: "...How is he doing that so slow in mid-air?"

Gibby looks to be in a fighting mood now.

Trigger: "Bullet time?"

Scott Gibson: "AUGH! YOU FUCKING SONNUVA BITCH, MY FUCKING ARM!"

Metal Man (GM): Scott is knocked back 3 TP.

The Ninja: "...Good pun."

Aetos: "It's pirate-technique, Ninja... the most useless of all! Slow-motion Guarding."

Trigger: "...Shut up."

Digifanatic: "And I thought Julian rang a good mouth."

The Ninja: "...Say again?"

Scott Gibson gets up... he glares at ??? with fire burning in his eyes.

Digifanatic: "And I thought Julian was an irrational user of swears."

Scott Gibson: "That hurt..."

Metal Man (GM): The person reloads and then... fires a grenade at all of you.

Dragoshi: "Yea, seriously."

Gibby: "Look out!"

Metal Man (GM): *CRIT* It explodes in all of your midsts, and deals 50 fire damage at all of you.
Now it is Aetos' turn to move/etc.

Gibby gets slightly burned.

Metal Man (GM): The person is 5 TP away.

???: "Come and get me."

Trigger: "...That wasn't too bad."

Aetos shakes his head, readjusting himself. "I really am sick of people attacking me when I don't do anything to THEM."

Digifanatic: "Oh maaaaaaaaan..." *BOOM?*

Aetos: *Not doing anything.*

Scott Gibson: "GUH!"

Gibby: *Cough* "That was unpleasant..."

Metal Man (GM): to move. 5 unit distance, again.

Scott Gibson just gets even more pissed.

Metal Man (GM): Must have reach 5 or movement 5 or range 5 or a combination of factors to hit from 5 units away.

???: "And to think... those are merely my normal procedures."

Gibby: "Don't worry... we're just getting warmed up ourselves."

Dragoshi: "Yep."

Digifanatic figures he has just enough space to pull this off... he runs the first 2 units and then tries to slam straight into the strange guy with a Fire Punch...

Gibby: .oO(...We're screwed.)

???: "I have the advantage."

Metal Man (GM): Digi hits the person.

Scott Gibson grimly smiles. "You picked the wrong Motley Crew to pick on, you bastard."

Dragoshi: .oO(...Been there, heard that, bought the shirt.)

The Ninja: "...What's a Motley?"

Metal Man (GM): Scott may attack now.

Trigger: "PLEASE ENOUGH OF THE FUCKIN' REFERENCES!!"

Editor's Note: For once, I agree with Trigger.

???: "A wimpy punch. And a whining fool. All hallmarks of the venture brothers."

Digifanatic: "Whatever..."

Dragoshi: "...Oh, nice reference."

???: "Never did learn to hunt anything... just steal baubles from a bunch of brain-dead rich people. But instead of giving it to the poor, you frittered it away and let the policemen die."

Scott Gibson: "Get ready!"

Gibby: "...What's he talking about?"

???: "No one would pity you... you even have a graveyard to be buried in once I'm done with you. But you cannot kill justice."

Scott Gibson leaps straight at ??? playing AC/DC and delivers a thunderous blow charged with Electricity..."You've been THUNDERSTRUCK!"

Dragoshi: "...Huh. Justice. That word is nothing more than some twisted excuse of sorts for all I care... Then, again, who am I to judge?"

Metal Man (GM): Miss!
The person used all their turn, though.
So they can't counter.

Dragoshi: "No one, of course. I really shouldn't even be spouting out stuff like that." *Chuckles.*

Metal Man (GM): Go ahead with it.

Scott Gibson wildly swings at ??? in an almost sadistic rage. He's pretty sore from that last two attacks.

Metal Man (GM): Hit... hit... then the person predicts the third one and blocks it.

???: "Your swing is... predictable."

Scott Gibson: "Heh... I'm just getting started." *Growls this.*

???: "Never give the enemy a chance to block like that."

Metal Man (GM): Gibby can move now.

???: "Let's see what the slow marshmallow does today."

Aetos snickers.

Gibby decides to reach out towards the guy with a new move of his own. He sucks in a bunch of air and starts floating up and away from the others. He glides himself over the strange person, lets out the air, and attacks him with a sword drop from above. (1 vert, 5 horiz.)

Metal Man (GM): Hit!

Digifanatic: "Nice move..."

???: "You're living on borrowed time."

Aetos: "What are you, a boss?! NO ONE constantly talks like this!"

Dragoshi: "Tell me something I DON'T know..."

Gibby: "Grr... just WHO are you anyway?" *He leaps 1 unit away from the person and ends his turn there.*

???: "I used to be one, but then everything I knew died."

Metal Man (GM): eh
Okay.

Aetos has to ponder if this guy has a wooden plank or whatever.

The Ninja takes a unit step forward, then properly sits on the ground cross-legged.

???: "You may try to trick me, but I wrote the book you probably learned them from."

Gibby: "...Come again?"

Aetos points at the mysterious man.

Dragoshi: .oO(...Wouldn't that mean you'd work at Ninja Burger, then?)

The Ninja knows there something different about this person. "Can I ask your name?"

Aetos covers his face again. .(We've been asking who he is like... 7 times now!)

???: "My name is merely a nonsensical combination of letters and numbers. It would serve you no use."

Scott Gibson: "*Mutters* Figures..."

Dragoshi: "Aren't all names?"

Gibby: "...No."

The Ninja: "I find names very useful. You can tell a personality by first few letters of name."

Dragoshi: .oO(...Thank for killing that moment of seriousness, Gibbs. Thank you.)

???: "Then try to find some personality in the number 4."

The Ninja: "Ah. You like to race into things."

Aetos bonks his own head. .oO(So many clues... but not enough!)

Gibby: .oO(Seriously, the Ninja is starting to creep me out beyond belief.)

Editor's Note: You and me both, Gibby.

The Ninja: "You try quick judgement by acting fast so others react without thinking. Right?"

???: "In a way, however I am more than I appear to be."

Scott Gibson makes a gagging expression and flaps his thumb and fingers to indicate he's talking too damned much.

Aetos: "Then show us what you really are!"

The Ninja: "You are a bucket full of mystery floating in a sea of riddles."

???: "You already know who I am. Why tell you the number 4 again?"

Digifanatic: "Number 4?"

Scott Gibson: "Four...?"

Dragoshi: "Yep. An enigma in a mystery wrapped in a crunchy taco shell who's the number-...Hmmm, any relation to the CAL ranking of four?"

???: "No." *Raises the gun again* "Now come and fight me like the violent people you are. My gun is getting cold."

The Ninja: "You remind of of rumors I hear about Dark Metal Man."

???: "A shame he lacked any sort of real fighting technique."

Scott Gibson: "He sounds like Garrick but without the usual intelligence he used to have."

???: "Failures dot the line to victory... victory so blinding they lose sight of what it is to be superior."

The Ninja: "If you don't mind. I brought my Sake, so I'm just going to drink and watch you. Maybe even get an ahead behind your dark self, Mr. Four."

???: "You shall see the bloodiest defeat the Questers have ever been involved in."

Dragoshi: "..." *Doesn't even bother moving. EoT.*

???: "Get out of my face."

The Ninja nods and pulls out a cup, pouring himself a drink.

Metal Man (GM): The person wildly swings their sniper rifle at everyone within 1 unit of her.
Him. Or... it?

Digifanatic has not retreated, so he is targeted...

Gibby is hit.
"Ow!"

The Ninja: "Would you like some, Dragoshi?"

Metal Man (GM): 10 damage, 5 knockback.

Digifanatic is shot.

Metal Man (GM): Those hit fly over The Ninja and land back where they started.
Then it loads the gun and shoots at Gibby.

Dragoshi: "Sure."

Digifanatic doesn't mind the low damage... but he DOES mind the distance that he covered while he was hit.

Metal Man (GM): With stunningly bad accuracy.

Gibby winds up getting knocked back to where he started.
"Aw man..."

Metal Man (GM): Hit or miss?

Gibby gets up... only to be shot down.

Metal Man (GM): 50 damage.
Then he hurls a grenade at the group behind The Ninja.
It flies over the railing and blows up a bunch of computers.

Trigger trys to dodge the attack, but get blasted away.

Gibby somehow manages to roll away from the grenade.

The Ninja pulls out another cup and pours Dragoshi a cup of sake, now handing it to him.

???: "Whoops... there goes the reactor's monitor station."

Gibby: "Great... now he's toying with us."

???: "I guess they won't be using it for power anymore."

Gibby slowly gets back up.

Digifanatic does miss the grenade.

Metal Man (GM): The lights dim.

Dragoshi: *Takes the cup* "Thank you." *Takes sips out of it.*

Metal Man (GM): Aetos' turn.

The Ninja: "So. Anyone know of a dark image for rifle user?"

Aetos wonders if this light dimming provides a better view. He moves forward 2 units, making him 3 units away?

Metal Man (GM): Even with a better view, it's just a person in camouflage armor which disguises everything about them.

Dragoshi: "...Hmmm... Nope. Sorry." *Continues drinking from the cup*"Haven't had a good drink like this in 16,000 years."

Aetos's spear appears in his hand, he points it out at the person... it begins to glow orange. "Chaooooss..."
*End.*

???: "Both you and I know the futility of trying to control chaos."

The Ninja: "Hey. Didn't the ghost know someone that used rifle and wore pants like that?"

Dragoshi: *Stops sipping for a sec* "Try absorbing a miniature nexus of it. Hurts like hell in a handba-...Maybe. Why do you ask?"

Trigger: "I think her name was Panzer?"

Gibby: "Hey yeah! Panzer! We sure could use her help right about now..."

The Ninja: "Of course you remember. She wanted to shoot you."

Digifanatic realizes all he can do is run again. He moves up 4 units (2 TP) and slams the mystery enemy with his Golf Club (Improved Range X2). He retreats back 2 units after.

Trigger: "Fuck yeah I remember that bitch."

Dragoshi: "Heh. Agreed, Gibbs." *Continues sipping from the Sake.*

Scott Gibson: "Panzer?"

Gibby: "She used to be a Quester... and a very good one I might add."

The Ninja: "So is this her dark version?"

Gibby: "...Are you drinking too much sake, Ninja dude?"

Scott Gibson: "I'll drink to that."

Trigger: "Me too."

Gibby: -_- .oO(Great... now I'm teaming with a group of drunks...)

Dragoshi: "..." *Continues sipping from his sake cup...*

The Ninja: "I need more time to solve this matter."

Gibby: "...And sitting around drinking sake is going to 'solve' anything?"

The Ninja: "Well, I'm not getting shot if that what you mean."

Dragoshi: "Yes. Now let the Ninja drink his sake in peace."

Gibby: "...You're not even TRYING!"

Dragoshi: "And, same goes for me about the sake." *Continues doin' what he's doin'*

The Ninja: "A goose that lays it's golden egg does not mean you should force the egg out."

Gibby: "...WHAT???"

Trigger: "WHEN ARE YOU NOT DRUNK!?"

Dragoshi: "...Amen to that."

Aetos sobs. .oO(This is ridiculous) He continues trying to focus the energies.

Digifanatic: "Confucius Say, indeed--hey, it did spread to Japan after a while."

Gibby: "What goose? What egg? We're fighting the enemy here!"

Digifanatic: "Not just secluded in China..."

Editor's Note: At this rate, the enemy ought to be taking sanity damage just from observing this.

The Ninja is done talking for the time being. Odd thing he, he hasn't drank anything yet. He holds a cup in one hand while rubbing his masked chin with the other.

Dragoshi: "A billion angry people can't be wrong. Especially if they're on your side."

Gibby: "...Why do I even bother?"
*He retreats from the sake group.*

Dragoshi: "..." *Stops drinking for the time being.*

The Ninja: "But a billion of them going 'boom' forms big bomb."

Dragoshi: *Nods.*

Digifanatic: *Sigh* "Yeah."

Metal Man (GM): Digi: Hit, 12 damage, etc etc

Digifanatic: *RETREAT'D, END TURN'D*

Metal Man (GM): Continuing to drink some sake, Mr. Ninja?

The Ninja refocuses and looks at and around the person. Seeing if there's anything worth noticing or cluing in on.

Metal Man (GM): You discover... they have a notch on their belt for some sort of object. The object in question is not hooked into that notch.
Otherwise, nothing looks odd.
You wonder if the sake threw you off.

The Ninja: "...Darn." *He shrugs and gets up, moving within two units of the person.* "Mr. Four. Do you know a girl name Panzer?"

???: "I know everybody."

The Ninja: "And how is that?"

Trigger: "...Do you know your MOM!?"

Gibby: "...*Sigh*..."

Dragoshi: "...*Loud groan*."

???: "I have been privileged to see everything... yes, even the idiocy of others. And for that reason I must kill you all."

Editor's Note: Now I am rooting for the enemy to kill the Questers, to save us from further surreal insanity.

Digifanatic: "And this is why I say actions speak louder than words."

Scott Gibson: "Speakin' my language there, Digi."

The Ninja: "Okay. Go back to killing. I have more thinking to do." *Sits back down and repours his drink.*

???: "Yes... so much speaking. Let us continue the deadliness."

Metal Man (GM): Lesseee
Scott: You were hit by a smack which sent ya back 5 units if you were up in the person's face when they did that.

Scott Gibson has been lying flat on his back by the others all this time just staring at the ceiling cursing profusely under his breath. Finally he stands up and gives the figure the finger deciding to conserve his TP this round.
*End.*

???: "Hmmmm... you've shown me plenty... but not any ability to defend yourselves."

Gibby decides to give it another go. But first... to heal! He takes out a recovery vial and chugs it down. Ahh... healthy! He moves four units and then leaps into the air in an attempt to hit the person with a single head stomp.

Metal Man (GM): The person leaps to the side, before then dramatically leaping into the air, hurling a smoke bomb into your midst, and then running. You hear several alarms go off.
+500 EXP to all.

Gibby: "...What the--"

Computer: "Danger. Explosives detected."

Aetos lets go of his Chaos Spear's charging. .oO(...;.;)

Computer: "Core #1 will be exploded in t-minus 5 minutes."

Gibby starts coughing from the smoke bomb.

Scott Gibson: "Sunnova!"

Trigger: "...Fuck."

Scott Gibson: "What's the plan guys?!"

Digifanatic: "Oh my goodness..."

Trigger: "Umm... run?"

Tirk Tovnic: "It appears the person is attempting to destroy our base."

Digifanatic: "That's all I can imagine... unless we're close enough to the core."

Scott Gibson: "No shit!"

Gibby: "Well... we could try to...*Cough* figure out a way to stop the core from exploding."

Dragoshi: "..." *Continues drinking sake, thinking of how to to get rid of the explosives... WITHOUT BLOWING THE BASE UP.*

Tirk Tovnic: "Go ahead and defuse those bombs already."

Aetos: "You run then. They real heroes would stay behind and help."

Digifanatic: "Right."

Metal Man (GM): He points to a ladder, which leads down a large spherical structure, with a time bomb on it.

Gibby: "I'm not exactly a demolitions expert..."

Digifanatic: "I'll be willing to stay..."

The Ninja: "Sorry. I can't defuse the bombs."

Aetos hops down the ladder.

Trigger: "My neither."

Gibby: .oO(He can't do much of -anything- it seems...)

Scott Gibson: "I'm finishing this."

Digifanatic starts heading to the ladder and plans on climbing down.

Dragoshi: "...Quite. Now if you excuse me..." *Jumps down the ladder, and looks for a way to defuse the bombs...*

Scott Gibson follows Aetos.

Gibby follows Digi down the ladder... might as well try.

Trigger follows the others.

Metal Man (GM): It's a large box... hmmm... looks like somebody's coffin.

The Ninja stays with Tirk. "Let's talk."

Gibby: "...Oh no... not HIM again..."

Scott Gibson slides down the ladder military style. Making sure not to bump into anyone on the way down.

Metal Man (GM): Attached to it is an LED showing the time ticking down.

Digifanatic: "Oh man... who's sitting in there."

Metal Man (GM): A bunch of wires protrude from the coffin and into the LED.

Trigger: "Who the fuck DO YOU THINK IS IN THERE?!"

Editor's Note: I actually don't know who is in there, personally, so this assumption everyone should know rings especially hollow.

Digifanatic: "Alright, fine!"

Gibby: "...explosive stuff?"

Scott Gibson: "Dracula anyone?"

Digifanatic: "I'll shut up!"

Trigger: "Yes."

Aetos hides his face again. .oO(Why would they put Dracula inside an explosive?)

Digifanatic just looks for something that'll defuse this...

Trigger: "An explosive Dracula."

Gibby: "Don't be stupid, Trigger..."

Scott Gibson: "No, I think he's behind this!"

Metal Man (GM): Looks like a game of cutting wires.

Dragoshi: "...Huh." *Sips from sake cup* "...That's just stupid, dude"

The Ninja: "...I mean not to rush. But we have five minutes."

Gibby: "Humph... I hate these kind of situations... it's like in the movies..."

Metal Man (GM): 3 yellow, 3 red, 3 green, and 3 blue.

Scott Gibson: "Yeah, cliche'."

Trigger: "Yeah, too bad it's real."

Digifanatic is still looking around... (Luck check or something?)

The Ninja: "I say cut the blue one."

Julian Sawyer: *And that's when Julian shows up! A generic blue warp portal appears in the ground as Julian rises out of it* "A'ight, what's the sit-...Why the HELL we sittin' in front of a bomb?"

Gibby: "Why the blue?"

Trigger: "Aww shit."

Metal Man (GM): It's no ordinary bomb... it's a coffin with explosives attached to it!

Trigger: "Julian's here."

The Ninja: "Because I like blue."

Gibby: "How nice of you to join us, Julian."

Julian Sawyer: "A COFFIN bomb no less!"

Metal Man (GM): Digi: You think... cut three wires of the same color... the right one... to make it stop.

Digifanatic: .oO(SWEAR FEST!)

Dragoshi: *Thinks about... Which color of wires should he cut...* (Luck)

The Ninja: "A coughing bomb? I know how to stop it!"

Digifanatic: "Okay. Anyone got something that can cut easily?"

Gibby: "...How, oh wise sage?"

Dragoshi: "If you say Robitussin, I'm gonna smack you upside the head!"

Julian Sawyer: "You say ANYTHIN' about cough syrup, you gonna pay."

Scott Gibson crosses fingers that Drag'll cut the correct one.

Aetos mutters to himself, and looks to see if the coffin is openable... or if it's already open?

The Ninja holds up... Two Cough Drops.

Metal Man (GM): It's openable.

Gibby: "...Somebody hit him."

Digifanatic: "Dragoshi? You want the honors of cutting the wires?"

The Ninja: "I say nothing of Syrup, Jewels."

Aetos shakes his head.

Digifanatic: "Oh, here we go!"

Julian Sawyer: "...Fuckin' technicalities... Hol' on, I been lookin' this stuff up in the library in mah spare time..."

Editor's Note: You know, because people regularly go to the library to study how to defuse bombs made out of vampiric coffins.

Gibby: "...Really? How convenient!""

Tirk Tovnic: "We do have two minutes."

Dragoshi: "...Red, yellow, blue or green... Tough choice..." *Tries to think... What would a mysterious villain that seems to know a LOT choose as the right color of wire to cut?* (Luck check?)

Metal Man (GM): Yes.
'Cause you lack demolitions.

Julian Sawyer: "Now gimmee a sec..." *Julian reaches into his back pocket, and pulls out... Vendetta! It may not be a weapon anymore, but it sure can cut things.*

Metal Man (GM): You think of... tricky... confusing... contradictory things.

Digifanatic: "Dragoshi, if you can give Julian a color, do it now."

Metal Man (GM): That is, what they'd probably use to confuse whoever was trying to defuse their bombs.

Gibby: "...Wait! Can the explosives be taken out and placed somewhere else?"

Julian Sawyer looks the thing over for himself... Demolitions Check!

Tirk: "They're likely to explode if you do that."

Gibby: "Drat... so much for -that- plan..."

Metal Man (GM): It looks like a bunch of TNT attached to a time detonator. Three wires control the timer. If cut, the timer is useless.

Julian Sawyer: *Any particular color of wires that should be cut? Rolled a 15...*

Metal Man (GM): Normally, red wires.

Aetos will wait to come in in the final 5 seconds...

Tirk Tovnic: "1 minute."

Scott Gibson: "Are we sure this is the main charge? I seem to remember a movie where the hero's defused a dummy bomb rather than the real one."

Gibby: "Crap, crap, crap..."

Trigger: "Shit, COME ON!!"

Julian Sawyer: "...A'ight, my gut says red wire."

Tirk Tovnic: "If we do nothing we explode either way."

Scott Gibson: "Then boom-age."

Dragoshi: "Go for it."

Gibby: "FINE! Do it then..."
.oO(Come on Golden rule... come on...)

Trigger: "Just do it..."

Digifanatic: .oO(Don't argue with Julian... don't argue with Julian...)

Gibby crosses his fins... somehow....

The Ninja just calmly leans against the wall.

Trigger braces for death.

Editor's Note: Yeah, I think I would too given the sanity level shown so far.

Dragoshi does the same as Ninja.

Aetos stands next to Julian.

Julian Sawyer: "Here goes somethin'!" *And with one mighty... ly careful swing of Vendetta, Julian cuts the red wires!*

Aetos raises an eyebrow.

Metal Man (GM): The device laughs at you and explodes.

Digifanatic turns away...

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM.*

Gibby: "GAH!"

Julian Sawyer: *Goddammit.*

Trigger: "DUMBASS!!!!"

Digifanatic: .oO(Oh, he's gonna get it tonight...)

Tirk Tovnic: "It appears they reversed the wiring."

The Ninja: "So it was the blue!"

Tirk Tovnic: "It was worth a try." *He walks out of the area as radiation warnings go off.*

Julian Sawyer IMMEDIATELY reaches out and grabs Trigger by the throat "...What did you say?"

Gibby: .oO(...GRRRRRRR...)

Dragoshi: "Yep."

Metal Man (GM): You see a lead door close behind him.

Trigger: "What the fuck do you think I said? Dumbass?"

Digifanatic: "GUYS STOP IT."

Gibby watches Trigger get killed.

Scott Gibson: "If it doesn't involve wire cutting or how to defuse a bomb properly without it exploding I say we all shut the hell up."

The Ninja opens up his Dex. "I think we need to leave, Metal."

Metal Man (GM): Your dex doesn't work... radiation everywhere!
Electromagnetic pulse took it out.

The Ninja: "...Reboot! Reboot!"

Aetos mutters. The coffin is completely exploded?

Digifanatic just decides to head back up the ladder and run as fast as he can.

Metal Man (GM): Yes.

Dragoshi: "..." *Looks for an exit...*

Digifanatic: "Come on!"

Metal Man (GM): You see one... up on the catwalk.

Dragoshi follows the others.

Trigger follows Digi.

Julian Sawyer tightens his grip on Trigger's throat "That's what I thought you say. Now lemme ask YOU somethin'. Did you have any objections to my decision 'fore I did it?"

Metal Man (GM): Digi: You run towards the exit... only to see the mystery person again.

Gibby notices the others running. "Hey wait up!" He dashes after them.

Trigger: "...Not really."

Gibby: "Oh not -this- again..."

The Ninja pauses for a minute, and decides to sneak after Tirk.

Digifanatic: .oO(Oh no.)

Aetos writes down a note and takes a picture of Julian and Trigger if he can.

Metal Man (GM): Ninja: Big solid door slammed down.
Can't sneak through it.

Julian Sawyer: "THEN WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU GET OFF CALLIN' ME DUMBASS?!" *Julian then SLAMS Trigger to the floor.*

Trigger: "Gah!!"

Aetos takes a picture of that too.

Trigger: "..."

???: "Yes... look at how miserable these imitations are... not even worth being killed."

Metal Man (GM): The person sees Digi coming and shoots at him.

Julian Sawyer: "S'far as I'm concerned, you're as much as fault as evr'yone else in this room fo' not offerin' any other objections."

Editor's Note: You know, for how ridiculous everyone was acting, it actually is a good point. Now if only it wasn't made via throwing Trigger into the floor.

Metal Man (GM): 50 damage.

Digifanatic is shot!

Trigger: "..."

Dragoshi: "...Heh." *Walks along behind digi, expecting to get shot at in...*

Aetos: "I was going to open the coffin."

???: "I shall kill any of you who try to leave this room... and you will slowly die from the radiation."

Trigger is starting to look depressed.

The Ninja sighs, and just wanders up to the person.

???: "Only a Quester could be this devious."

Julian Sawyer: "...Who's this joker?"

???: *Looks to The Ninja* "What do you want?"

Digifanatic: "We have no clue, Julian. Seriously."

Gibby: "We don't know... but he sure does know a lot about us."

Aetos: "He... or she, is codenamed Four by me."

The Ninja: "What is your purpose?"

Aetos growls.

Dragoshi: "..." *Has finished drinking the sake cup.*

???: "To kill you all."

Aetos: "It's PURPOSE is to KILL US, NINJA!"

Gibby grumbles. "More talking..."

Aetos sulks, almost crying. .oO(Why doesn't anyone GET it?)

???: "Lethal radiation. Locked room. Explosive personalities allowing bombs to explode."

Julian Sawyer: "...Four? That ain't no kinda name..."

Dragoshi: "...No idea, Aetos. No idea..."

???: "All as I predicted."

Aetos: "Now, do you want my help, Questers?"

Gibby: "...Uhh... YEAH!"

Dragoshi: "Do whatever. I merely watched."

Aetos walks up to the door.

Julian Sawyer: "What the hell you got planned, Aetos?"

Digifanatic: "Yes."

Gibby: "Let the man do his work."

Trigger: "What's the plan?"

The Ninja: "If so, shouldn't you have done that already? After all, you got in without a sweat. You have something else planned."

???: *Loads gun* "I challenge just one of you to stop me." *PING* *Another reactor safeguard is shot. Radiation begins to increase, and the sheer radiation begins to feel like being stabbed by pins and needles.*

Aetos reaches under his cape, and pulls out a charge of C4. He applies it to the door.
"Gah!... Gr... Irk..."

???: "I'm taking this whole damn base down with you."

Digifanatic: .oO(There ya go...)

Metal Man (GM): The person takes out a detonator and holds it in one hand.

Gibby starts coughing loudly and holds his "neck" area.

Trigger: "ARGH, fuck that."

Julian Sawyer: "...Aetos, you realize that if you set that off, that radiation's goin' SOMEWHERE? Mainly that bein' the ENTIRE BASE?"

???: "Again... I challenge any of you to stop me."

Aetos: "Yes, I do."

Gibby: "Well so much for -that- help."

???: "Look. I have the detonator in my left hand. You could just reach for it."

The Ninja: "Oh. One-on-one?"

???: "But... you don't."

Digifanatic: "Then what do you plan on doing after, Aetos?"

Julian Sawyer: "...An' that's kind of a bad thing, Aetos."

???: "That depends on how you thing defeat works."

Metal Man (GM): The radiation slowly begins to burn HP; it's heavily damaging.

Gibby has had enough. He rushes towards the person and attempt to slash at the left hand that holds the detonator.

The Ninja: "Oh. My one-on-one abilities usually have victory. So I challenge you, Mr. Four."

Dragoshi: "...hmm... To take that challenge or not... Oh, well... I could require some assistance... Also, leave this to me, Ninja" *Concentrates for a second, and...*

Aetos sighs, everyone trying to do their own business once more. He pauses.

Metal Man (GM): He grabs Gibby's sword, lifts him up, and drops him back onto the ground.

???: "I will fight you... and destroy you."

Gibby: "Ga... damn it..."

Julian Sawyer: "...People, a one-on-one challenge ain't gonna work if YOU ALL RUSH HIM AT THE SAME TIME!"

Gibby slowly gets back up.

Metal Man (GM): The person's eyes light up, and the area around Ninja and ??? lights up... shielded from radiation.

The Ninja: "Alright. But Take only the two of us to a place where we can fight... Alone."

???: "It is here we do so. I can control all of them like puppets."

Metal Man (GM): It snaps its fingers, and strange fields appear around everyone else.

Digifanatic: .oO(Ninja, you may be nuts.)

Julian Sawyer: "...The fuck is this shit?"

The Ninja: "Oh! I'm good at the puppet thing too!"

Gibby looks at the field.

Trigger: "What's this?"

???: "You're free to walk out of those fields... but they're the only things protecting you from radioactive death."

Dragoshi: *Even though that roll I made WOULD call for a mini mech to blast the hell out of the door, he decides to hold it back... For now...*

???: "Now... show me what you've got, Ninja."

Gibby: "...Stuck, huh? Great..."

Metal Man (GM): Battle Part 2, 'Actual' fighting

Gibby sheaths his sword and just watches Ninja and the mystery "man" go at it.

Metal Man (GM): Roll opposed MNT checks for reaction.

Trigger: "Kill that fuckin' bastard Ninja!!"

Julian Sawyer: "...Jus' like ol' times..."

Dragoshi: "...Seriously, I kindly said I'd take his place, but he ignores it. Sheesh..."

Aetos tries to push this field a little... not effecting anything hopefully... just trying to see if these protective fields can be Energy Controlled.

Julian Sawyer: "He wouldn' 'cept it. All that BS 'bout honor an' such."

Metal Man (GM): It cannot be controlled well. Not while someone else controls it.
The Mystery person goes first, whipping out the sniper rifle and shooting at the Ninja's feet.
50 damage. AGI check.
Too slow, as he walks forwards and smacks you with the rifle. Or at least, attempts to.

The Ninja leans out of the way of that attack
He pulls out his sword and does a small chant with it. "May the Evil spirits be sealed away." He then swings it around and attempts to hit the odd enemy before him.

Metal Man (GM): Miss.
*Zoom*
Anything else?
Ah.
???
The person merely points and shoots at your left knee.

Julian Sawyer: "Daymn, Ninja gettin' shot to pieces..."

Metal Man (GM): *Blam* 50 damage. AGI check.

Aetos: "Who's to say this person is actually EVIL, anyways?"

Editor's Note: I'm pretty certain a guy who shoots first, then irradiates everyone and also the entire environment with a nuclear catastrophe in response to some thought Questers are 'not good enough anymore' is, indeed, evil.

Scott Gibson: "Ah! Ninja!"

Gibby: "Well the guy's trying to KILL us for one thing..."

Trigger: "Umm, he's SHOOTING at us."

Dragoshi: "...Knew I should've taken his place... Then again... I could be wrong..."

Metal Man (GM): *Combo breaker.*

Aetos: "You must be arrogant to believe anything violent is evil."

Dragoshi: "...Well, good luck, Ninja..."

Aetos: "Look at Julian. He must be evil, says you."

Gibby: "I consider people who want to kill others to be evil..."

Aetos: "You yourself, are evil?"

Gibby: "There's a difference between violently hurting someone, and KILLING..."

Julian Sawyer: "Hell, most of us probably as... 'zat a him or a her?"

Gibby: "I don't kill."

???: "But it is merely turnabout for you trying to kill me."

Julian Sawyer: "Like hell you don't."

Trigger: "Neither to I."

Julian Sawyer: "EVERYONE here kills."

Gibby: "...What? What are you talking about?"

Aetos: "Exactly."

Trigger: "AHH HA HA HA!!!"

Gibby: "Not I... I 'defeat'..."

Julian Sawyer: "You end lives! Sounds like killin' to me!"

Gibby: "Since WHEN?"

Digifanatic: "Stop it..."

The Ninja: "HA!" *He pounds his fist on the ground, trying to do a better job at hiding this time around. Hopefully this distraction is long enough for the other Questers to figure out how to get out of the place.*

Trigger: "Only when I need to."

Digifanatic: "Just stop it..."

Scott Gibson: "Can we stay focused! We stop evil even if we have to be the devil himself!"

Dragoshi: "...I wish I had more sake..."

Julian Sawyer: "An'? You still kill."

Metal Man (GM): Miss.

Gibby just ends the conversation. Obviously they all had different views on evil.

Aetos: "Your hypocrisy intrigues me."

Metal Man (GM): Oh, right.
Wow... this person must have a mastery of hiding themselves.

???: "You cannot hide when everything I cannot see is radioactive!"

Julian Sawyer: "Look, I'm not sayin' we shouldn't attack this guy in self-defense. He's tryin' to kill us, we try to kill 'em back. But if killin's the way you measure bein' evil, then we ALL evil. Simple as that."

Editor's Note: I can't believe I am saying it, but, I do agree with Julian here. Even the 'good' characters in SSQ end up having to kill in self defense occasionally! (Or perhaps rather often due to the number of psychotically evil foes that show up...)

Scott Gibson: "I stand for law, order, and justice... That's what the GSPB and Master Hendrix taught me. There are varying degrees of evil, we are due lesser forms of filth."

Dragoshi: "...Seriously wish I had more sake..."

Gibby: "Fine, whatever you say Julian, YOU'RE always right. Happy?"

Metal Man (GM): You guys, standing around, appear to be near to a reactor.
Perhaps you can fiddle with it.

Trigger: "Hmmm..."

Metal Man (GM): It's got more controls than an airplane.

Julian Sawyer: "...Hendrix?"

Scott Gibson: "Tch, I'm done with this conversation."
*He helps Trigger.*

Dragoshi: *Tries to figure out how to stop this radioactive problem thingy... Using the reactor* (Computer use check?)

The Ninja: "...Ugh. Another ninja? Who exactly are you?" *He uses this time to figure out the slot in the person's belt by looking at it harder.*

Julian Sawyer: "You mean like Jimi Hendrix?"

Trigger starts to fiddle with the panel.

Dragoshi: "Yep. That's what he means, Julian."

Aetos points to Scott. "Jimmy Hendrix or whatever, yeah. Also, you know Fooly Cooly?"

Metal Man (GM): Trigger: Control panel-related skill check.
Wow... two crits in a row.

Julian Sawyer: "...Didn' he die?"

Metal Man (GM): Trigger pokes the console. It makes loud beeps at him.
Nothing seems to happen, but the console seems to work.

Trigger: "AHH!!"

Gibby looks at the console.

Trigger: "Hmmm."

Dragoshi: "...Mind if I help, Trig, or do ya already have it covered?"

Trigger: "Let me try again."

Gibby: "Seems like he knows what he's doing... I hope."

Julian Sawyer: "...Trigger, move yo' stupid ass. You ain't got no idea what you're doin."

Metal Man (GM): Trigger presses buttons. Faster. Meanwhile, ??? stares at The Ninja.

Trigger: "Go back to hell Julian."

Dragoshi: "...And, you do?"

Aetos stays where he is, wondering if the others are leaving their protective fields to go to the console.

Metal Man (GM): Beep beep beeep!
Nope. They're right near the console.

Julian Sawyer: "All he's doin' is pressin' buttons at random!"

Trigger: "Ok, I think I got it."

Gibby: "Well do -you- know what buttons to press?"

Metal Man (GM): Besides hiding, anything else, Ninja?

Dragoshi: "...Better than staying motionless with poles up our asses."

Julian Sawyer: "I could probly' figure it out without havin' to press everythin' twice!"

Metal Man (GM): Trigger presses the buttons even FASTER.

Digifanatic is just staying still...

Metal Man (GM): However that isn't going to make anything happen.

Trigger: "Come on..."

Dragoshi: "Go for it, mr. bullcrap."

Metal Man (GM): And... FASTER! Wow... they're gonna break if he keeps on smacking them.

Gibby: "Trig, let Julian try it now."

Trigger: "Ok."

Dragoshi: "Cause I really don't believe you."

Julian Sawyer: "TRIGGER! Stop breakin' the damn thing!"

Trigger backs away form the panel."

Metal Man (GM): The slot appears to fit some sort of throwing weapon.

Julian Sawyer: "Christ..." *Julian moves over to the console and sees what he can do...*

Metal Man (GM): Julian presses the buttons SO FAST THEY FLY OFF THE KEYBOARD

Editor's Note: In your face, CSI! SSQ has far faster keyboard typing scenes than you!

Dragoshi: "...Told ya so."

Metal Man (GM): You gotta have something in mind when you do the check.
Otherwise you're just shoving buttons
..You used the computer. But without a goal... you just press buttons.

Gibby: "...OK that did nothing."

Aetos: "What are you trying to do??"

Dragoshi: "...You guys are such fuckups! I swear!" *Shoves Julian out of the way and uses the computer to try and get rid of the radiation problem* (Computer Use check?)

The Ninja nods upon seeing this, and ends his turn.

Julian Sawyer: *Alright, Julian tries AGAIN, this time to see if he can do anything about the radiation.*

Metal Man (GM): Julian and Dragoshi fight over the control panel instead of using it.
They punch and shove one another.

Gibby searches the area to see if there's any instructions on or near the console that show what buttons to press for what situations.

Trigger: "What the hell..."

Metal Man (GM): Hmmm... perhaps if one of you tried it at a time instead of arguing with it.
Gibby sees a simple notice. 'PRESS REACTOR SHUTDOWN BUTTON IN CASE OF NUCLEAR LEAKAGE'

Trigger: "Let me try again."

Gibby: "Hey guys, look!"
*He points to the notice.*

Trigger: "Hmmm?"

Julian Sawyer: "..."

Gibby: "This seems important."

Metal Man (GM): Which is, conveniently, a red slot where that red button was shoved off.

Julian Sawyer: "GodDAMMIT."

Scott Gibson looks.

Dragoshi: "...Son of a BITCH."

Trigger kicks Gibby in the FACE!!

The Ninja ended his turn and is waiting for ??? to react.

Julian Sawyer decides that finding the red button that used to be there would be a good idea.

???: *Uses turn to sit there and point at the Questers* "I think I'll just let them sit around and argue. Try to hit me again."

Gibby: "I was only trying to help..."

Dragoshi decides to help Julian.

Metal Man (GM): Search check... or, yeah, you can do that, Scott.

The Ninja: "...I'll have you know I'm not with them. I'm just a passerby."

Metal Man (GM): In which case you may use your guitar to replace the now scattered buttons.

Scott Gibson: "Let me try."

Gibby: "Good luck, Scott..."

Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi and Julian work together instead of punching and shoving one another.
They find the red button.

Julian Sawyer: "Hol' on, jus' gotta find a but-Bingo!" *Grabs it.*

Dragoshi: "There it is."

Gibby: "Will it go back on?"

Dragoshi: "You do the honors, Julian..."

Scott Gibson walks over to the console and pulls a small cord from the bottom of the instrument and plugs it into a slot on the console.

Julian Sawyer tries to place the button back on the console, then press it to activate REACTOR SHUTDOWN.

Metal Man (GM): It's plugged in.
Then Julian presses the button.
*BEEP BEEP BEEP* Scott's guitar is turned off.

Julian Sawyer: "We got it covered, Guitar Hero."

Aetos: "Yes... unfortunately, I'm only with them because of obligations."

Scott Gibson: "..."

Trigger: "HAH!"

Julian Sawyer: "..."

Metal Man (GM): Hmmm... I guess you're not supposed to interface stuff to it AND shut it down at once.

Dragoshi: "..."

Julian Sawyer: "Y'see, that was your fault."

Trigger: "Nice one."

Metal Man (GM): Of course, Scott can just turn it back on.

Gibby sighs long and hard.

Scott Gibson: "Thanks Julian..."

Gibby: "Let Scott handle it..."

Julian Sawyer: "I'm jus' sayin'..."

Dragoshi: "Just turn it back on."

Metal Man (GM): However it doesn't seem to work to shut down the reactor while the guitar is plugged in.

Digifanatic: *looks back* .oO(Finally...)

Scott Gibson flips it back online.

Julian Sawyer: "Gibby, we got the damn button. Don't need nothin' else."

The Ninja: "...Mr. Four. Are you sure we cannot go elsewhere?"

Julian Sawyer: "Jus' unplug the guitar so's I can press it."

Dragoshi: "...Now remove your guitar from the interface, and let me push the button... Or Julian."

Aetos begs to them. "Take me with you, please, Four."

Scott Gibson unplugs.

Gibby: "...Do you really have to do that, Aetos?"

???: "I think I've proven my point. I shall fight you later." *He... she... it? Turns around and walks away, laughing and hurling the weird detonator device right between Dragoshi and Julian.*

Scott Gibson: "Pushy bastards ain't ya."

Julian Sawyer presses the button
"I'm jus' sayin' we had it covered."

Dragoshi attempts to grab the device without pushin' any buttons...

Metal Man (GM): *Push* The reactor shuts down, and the detonator lands in between Julian and Dragoshi.

Trigger: "Yeahhh."

Metal Man (GM): It's a palm... pilot... thing.
It has three buttons:

Gibby: "...That it?"

Metal Man (GM): 'Destroy base
Destroy Base
Deactivate explosives'

Gibby: "OOH! That third one!"

Dragoshi: "...Son of a SIDEWINDER."

Julian Sawyer: "..."

Trigger: "..."

Aetos takes the C4 off of the door, if he can?

Dragoshi presses the deactivate explosions button.

Metal Man (GM): *BOOOOOOM.*

The Ninja: "...This mission had no honor."

Julian Sawyer: "..."

Metal Man (GM): It appears this person enjoys reverse buttons.

Editor's Note: This is another teachable moment, as far as my GMing failure.
On the surface, one would think, "Ah! Dragoshi failed to notice this guy is tricky and pushed a trapped button!"
But I never attempted to roll any sort of check on Dragoshi's behalf for perception-esque checks, never mentioned it seemed dodgy, and never reminded the player of this character's behavior.
Since there is this level of disconnect between player and character, normally. Sure, I find this booby-trap to be 'obvious', but I'm also the one who created this so the knowledge is there and it's only 'obvious' to me, the GM.
So if you're a GM and reading this, be certain to not replicate this failure in your own game, now that you've read this.

Dragoshi: "..."

Gibby: "..."

Trigger: "Knock it off 'Master Chief'."

Julian Sawyer: "DRAGOSHI!"

Gibby: "Son of a..."

Metal Man (GM): You hear stuff exploding in the other room.

Julian Sawyer: "THE HELL WAS YOU THINKIN'?!"

Metal Man (GM): EXPLOSIVELY FAILTASTIC

Digifanatic: "OH my goodness..."

Scott Gibson picks it up.

Trigger: "FUCK!!"

Dragoshi: "...Apparently this guy enjoys reversals,"

Metal Man (GM): On the plus side, the reactor is off.

Digifanatic: "Exactly."

Metal Man (GM): On the negative side, the room you just left exploded.

Gibby: "...Think they'll be mad at us?"

Julian Sawyer: "NO FUCKIN' KIDDIN'! Christ, what else can go wrong on this mission?!"

The Ninja: "I'm not even looking! I'm aborting mission!"

Metal Man (GM): On the plus side, you're... uhhh... standing near a massive pile of buttons?

Scott Gibson presses the button marked 'Deactivate explosives'..."Hope this works."

Metal Man (GM): Your dexes work again.

Digifanatic: "Who here seriously thought they were gonna pull that twice?"

Julian Sawyer: "Fuck this, I'm out." *Julian sets up a warp home.*

Metal Man (GM): +0 coins
+Loud explosion

Gibby: "Wait, Julian, don't go---damn..."

Dragoshi: "...Yea, seriously..."

Trigger: "See ya, you jerk."

Metal Man (GM): The warp appears in front of the radioactive crater that was Reactor 1.

Gibby: "Trigger, please... it's not helping."

Trigger: "..."

Digifanatic: "Okay."

The Ninja: "I hope Sky is much better than team I am on! We looked like fools!"

Julian Sawyer: "...Trigger, you got me one straw away from snappin' yo' damn neck right here an' now, CAL be DAMNED. You SURE you wanna press it?"

Digifanatic walks up to Dragoshi for a second...

Gibby sighs and slowly steps into the warp. Man... what happened? This was something to think about in private.

Trigger: "...Not really."

The Ninja: "This is not even team! Too many 'I' and 'U'!"

Julian Sawyer: "Good. Then shut yo' fuckin' mouth." *Julian heads into the warp, clenching and unclenching his fists.*

Digifanatic: *Sigh* "Never mind..."

Metal Man: *Back at HQ* "Hmmm... radioactive disaster destroys previously hidden base... mystery person makes off with confidential data... deaths numbered at over 100... yeah... I'm just going to stop watching television."

Editor's Note: For that matter, if 'Metal Man' is the leader of this crew, why does he... just watch it on TV? Hell, he could have run in there himself when things began to go sideways... but nope. Just... watches it go to hell.

Dragoshi: "...Ya THINK, ninja?"

Gibby didn't even feel like yelling at Ninja he was so upset.

Digifanatic warps back...

Aetos sighs. "Oh mister Kalvin Klein or whoever?! Can you hear me?"

Trigger: *Mutters under his breath* "What a dick..."

Metal Man (GM): Aetos: Seems like they evacuated, luckily.

Dragoshi heads into the warp.

Wolfman: "I could have told you before that television started getting bad since the late 20th century."

Metal Man (GM): Only a bunch of janitors and innocent people were killed.

The Ninja: "Including you, Dragoshi!"

Trigger walks in the warp.

Aetos shrugs. "Oh well..."
He enters the warp.

The Ninja leaps into the warp.

Wolfman: "I was lucky to even have a television to watch now and then back at my old base."

Scott Gibson me heads to the warp with his head hung low.

Metal Man (GM): Mission Finished

Digifanatic is not saying anything but you can tell this guy is angry at everybody's bickering...

Julian Sawyer: "Christ, what a fuckin' disaster..."

Wolfman: "...what exactly did I miss?"

Gibby: "...You don't wanna know."

Wolfman: "Usually I'm surrounded by higher... spirits."

The Ninja: "And in case you were wondering. Mr. Four was questioning our Team Work!"

Dragoshi: "...Yep. All I got out of it was my first drink in 16,000 years."

Wolfman: "Mr. Four? No clue who he is..."

Gibby sighs and slumps his way over to the R&R room.

Metal Man was watching 'Most disastrous explosion since Kuja's tower' on MNN.

Aetos rolls his eyes.

Wolfman: "...but... if that's the cause for your spirits, I probably wouldn't be surprised."

Trigger walks over to the R&R room as well.

Wolfman: "If there is something that I've noticed we had issues with, it was working together."

Aetos: "Nooooo kidding."

Wolfman: "Did... lack of teamwork prove to be near fatal?"

The Ninja: "Metal. I need warp to Sky."

Julian Sawyer: "Hell, what went wrong... First off, I cut the wrong wire on a bomb..."

Scott Gibson walks unnaturally silently into the R&R room.

Digifanatic walks over to the others...

Aetos: "Wish Aribar... and Charles... and Garr--- nevermind."

Dragoshi: "Nah, just annihilated a base that belonged to the Mage's Council."

Gibby sits down on the couch and looks at the ground silently thinking about what just happened.

Scott Gibson's guitar drags behind him as he walks in with it still in hand.

Gibby: .oO(...Ninja's right. We didn't have any teamwork...)

Julian Sawyer: "Then Ninja challenged some jackass to a fight while Trigger pressed buttons on a console... buttons which were later removed..."

Wolfman: "...I might be a Quester, but I have no reason to go against them. If they come for you, don't expect me to stick up for you."

Aetos scowls and goes to Metal.

Metal Man sits at his chair.

Digifanatic: "Okay... the button thing in the end was the crazy guy's way of mind-screwing."

Wolfman: "Perhaps some of these... new upgrades we all got have gotten to some of your heads."

Dragoshi: "Then after that, There was this detonator that was tossed, and apparently it pulled the same crap the bomb did when I pushed the button that was supposed to do the OPPOSITE blow crap up, but it did the opposite of THAT opposite."

Scott Gibson sits down in a chair in the darkest corner of the room possible and literally throws his guitar at the wall. It falls to the floor with a loud distorted Bwong!...

Aetos shows Metal the notes and pictures.

The Ninja: "Metal. I'm poking at you for request."

Metal Man looks at them... what are they of?
"Yes?"

Julian Sawyer: "So yeah, shit went wrong, people died, Mission fuckin' FAILED."

Gibby cringes after hearing the guitar crash. It was awful to hear....

Digifanatic then walks over to where Aetos and Metal are...

Wolfman: "Julian: for the most part, we have been successful in missions, right?"

Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, an' that just highlights the ones we failed even more."

Wolfman: "Maybe. But it shows that we're all human... or the rough equivalent. No being is ever perfect."

Scott Gibson is sitting slumped forward in the chair rather than playing any songs. Not a word utters from his lips. His shoulder length hair hides his eyes.

The Ninja: "I must talk with Sky, Metal. Set me up the warp."

Julian Sawyer: "...Wolf, you're a robot. What'du know 'bout that?"

Wolfman: "I'm a reploid... a highly advanced 'robot' that can think and feel. I have felt many feelings before... both as a Hunter and as a Maverick."

Gibby looks over at Scott. He felt bad for the guy... he was new to this, and he had to go through THAT mess. "...Sorry." It was all he could think of saying.

Wolfman: "I might not be able to produce the tears you can, but trust me when I say... I've been through probably just as much, if not more, than you ever will."

Digifanatic: "Metal?"

Metal Man: "Yes? I can't talk to three people at once."

Digifanatic: "Alright, I'll wait."

Wolfman: "You win some, and you lose some."

Julian Sawyer: "...Whatever. I need to find somethin' to sit infront of..." *Heads to R&R&R&R.*

Wolfman: "Yes, disappointment is normal... but don't dwell on it much."

Editor's Note: Interesting. So Wolfman served as the actual source of wisdom while the relatively useless Metal Man sat behind a desk... and presumably the absence of both from the equation is why the later SSQ^2 era went off the rails.

Scott Gibson stands up and picks up his guitar holding it by the neck just above the headstock and walks over to Gibby... growls. "Know of anywhere that I can beat shit in?"

The Ninja: "No talking, just place to go to the mountain. Whatever name is we rose Aetos from."

Aetos: "Turion."

Scott Gibson's eyes burn with absolute fury.

Metal Man: "That place? Oh. Warp to that place activated."

Gibby looks down in defeat and sighs. "...I suppose you could challenge someone to a fight. But... I'd advise against it. One shouldn't fight with a burning anger... nothing good comes out of it."

The Ninja: "Thanks you. No one follows either." *Gives Metal a bow and leaps into the warp.*

Dragoshi: *Dull voice* "...Yep."

Scott Gibson: "..."

Aetos waves to Ninja as he leaves, then looks to Digi.

Digifanatic: "Alright, Aetos, you were here first."

Wolfman: "...does anyone else have any questions?"

Aetos waves his hand. "No, go ahead."

Trigger: "Hey Dragoshi, there was something I wanted to talk about with you."

Scott Gibson doesn't flinch.

Aetos: "I think I'm done here."

Digifanatic: "Oh, alright."

Metal Man: "Despite being a failed mission, it showed also what can be fixed to not fail the next one."

Dragoshi: *To Trigger* "And that would be...?"

Digifanatic: "Metal, I cannot stand all the arguing that goes on on almost every single mission."

Trigger: "You said you knew about Nemesis right?"

Dragoshi: "Yep."

Digifanatic: "Everybody's so strung on each other and regardless of what the end result is, this really has to stop. I am tired of seeing things such as what I saw today."

Metal Man: "Well, I guess I can come along, then."

Trigger: "Do you remember anything about the 'Racoon City Incident'?"

Metal Man: "Seeing as I am the closest thing to a leader around here."

Digifanatic leans into Metal, and whispers...
"I'm thinking restraining orders."

Aetos would like to hear that...

Metal Man: "Psh. I'm thinking a few orders and some yelling should keep everyone good."

Digifanatic: "Alright."

Gibby felt really awkward being as little as he was with someone as tall as Scott looming over him. "You know... it's not always like that." It was a half truth at best.

Dragoshi: "Hmm... Yes. Wasn't that a zombie outbreak that ended in said city being destroyed to prevent any further outbreak resulting in indefinite suspension of Umbrella...?" *Can't remember clearly.*

Digifanatic: *A bit louder* "But just try and do something to keep as much peace between all of us as possible, alright?"

Trigger: "I believe so."

Digifanatic: "It's making me so tired and angry at the same time."

Scott Gibson finally huffs and sits down again near Gibby.

Dragoshi: *To Trigger*"Thought so. Why'd you ask...?"

Metal Man: "Well, first, I have to let this calm down."

Scott Gibson: "Why..."

Digifanatic: "Not a problem."

Julian Sawyer: "I was wonderin' when you was gonna stop intimidating the legend." *Julian sits down next to Scott.*

Metal Man: "Then I can mold the results into a team."

Trigger: "Do you think that really happened, cause I can't find Racoon City on any map."

Gibby: "...I'm not sure. I just know it wasn't always like this. And I wish we could change."

Digifanatic: "I appreciate it if you can cure this problem, Metal."

Aetos nods.

Digifanatic: "And I know it's not just my nerves."

Gibby: "Humph... some legend I am... I'm just as bad as the rest of you."

Scott Gibson: "..."

Metal Man: "I cannot magically 'cure' the problem."

Julian Sawyer: "Eh, you ain't so bad Gibby. Pretty much saved our hides back there while Drag an' I was tryin' to fix the console."

Dragoshi: *To Trigger*"...Maybe it happened on some other world. Who knows?"

Metal Man: "Only if you work together can WE 'fix' the problem."

Scott Gibson's eyes almost glow through his orange glasses.

Digifanatic: "Yes."

Trigger: "I guess..."

Dragoshi: "Any other questions...?"

Digifanatic: "I'm willing to help. Just let me know if you want me to do anything in particular."

Trigger: "Hmmm..."

Gibby: "I dunno... I just keep thinking that I could've done better... could've added more to the group."
*He flips on the couch and looks up at the ceiling.*

Scott Gibson: "How many...?"

Metal Man: "My opinion is that all you need is teamwork."

Julian Sawyer: "...How many what?"

Scott Gibson: "How many died today because we fucked up!?"

Trigger: "I can't think of anything else right now."

Gibby: "...Do you really wanna know?"

Julian Sawyer: "...I dunno, last I checked, 'bout 100..."

Dragoshi: "Well, call me if you do."

Trigger: "Thanks for answering my questions."

Gibby cringes as the amount is said.

Dragoshi: *Leans against the wall*"No prob."
*He sighs as he hears the amount.*

Digifanatic: "I only have one problem."

Scott Gibson: "THAT'S 100 LIVES WE DESTROYED! THAT'S 100 PEOPLE'S SOULS NOW SCOURED ABOUT BECAUSE WE FUCKED UP!"

Julian Sawyer: "But like Wolf was sayin', you win some, you lose some."

Gibby: "Scott..."
*He didn't even know what to say.*

Dragoshi: "Yep..."

Scott Gibson: "Lose some...?!"

Trigger: "..."

Dragoshi: "I really didn't expect him to pull the same crap again..."

Metal Man looks at the yelling. "Had we done nothing far more would have died."

Digifanatic: "I'm gonna have to overcome this, but if I try and tell these guys to shut up, I'm probably going to get it the worst."

Gibby: "It's not your fault, Drag..."

Metal Man: "You didn't notice the reactor being shut down...?"

Julian Sawyer: "Scott, you ever wonder what our record is? Plenty a' times we saved OVER 100 lives by completin' our mission."

Metal Man: "If it had been left on... nuclear explosion."

Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, an' Met's got a point too."

Scott Gibson: "Fuck! Master Hendrix almost died once... he explained it to me... now that description of falling into nothing but pain and darkness scares the shit out of me!"

Metal Man: "Total destruction of at least an entire city."

Dragoshi: "I noticed. And, yes a nuclear explosion would've prolly' annihilated THOUSANDS."

Julian Sawyer: "...Hendrix DID die."

Trigger: *Sigh.*

Metal Man: "So. Remember. It could have been worse, and rather than have them die in vain, we take this to heart and stop arguing amongst one another. Because otherwise more people will die. This is nothing new... just an issue with every generation of the Questers."

Scott Gibson: "No, Hendrix is alive. How else would he have taught me Julian?"

Metal Man: "It's the ones who crack and go insane who truly kill millions."

Digifanatic: "Seriously, Scott, he's dead."

Julian Sawyer: "...Christ, we got another one from a different dimension..."

Scott Gibson: "Not in my world he's not."

Metal Man: "...You are from different dimensions."

Editor's Note: That's right, reader! We had Marvel Movie Universe-esque multiverse problems way back in the 2000s, long before it became a popular culture thing outside of the even earlier comic books that predate even this session!

Digifanatic: "If you're playing AC/DC, he's dead."

Gibby: "I would imagine that's the case."

Julian Sawyer: "This shit's too confusin'..."

Metal Man: "He's probably a different person in that timeline."

Dragoshi: "Yep. I'll try. Dunno 'bout the others. Especially seeing as Trigger and Julian get into squabbles too damn much. Though, they aren't to blame... And, don't remind me, Metal. I've seen that happen before I became a Quester... Eugh" *Shudders.*

Julian Sawyer: "'Parently he's still a guitar player..."

Aetos scratches his chin.

Gibby: "Maybe only a couple things changed different with Scott's dimension compared to the regular one... You know, minor things."

Scott Gibson: "Hendrix, ALMOST, died that way once. The GSPB scooped him up though and revived him."

Dragoshi: "Prolly."

Digifanatic: "GSPB?"

Julian Sawyer: "...An' you guys decided to FOLLOW him?"

Scott Gibson: "Because of him my people were able to survive."

Dragoshi: "Galactic Space Police... Uhh... What did the B stand for, Scott?"

Metal Man: "Battalion?"

Scott Gibson: "Brotherhood."

Dragoshi: "Yea. Brotherhood."

Julian Sawyer: "...You got some fucked up people, then."

Gibby: "...Ok, so maybe a couple -major- differences..."

Scott Gibson: "There were only 100 of my people that survived out of 8 billion."

Digifanatic: "You know what? I'm going to my room. I've had enough of this."

Julian Sawyer: "...Whoa, coincidence."

Trigger: "I'm gonna go too."

Gibby: "I think I'll just stay here... and think..."

Dragoshi: "Eugh... Talk about COINCIDENCE. A very bad coincidence..."

Scott Gibson: "That's why Master Hendrix taught me the value of life."

Trigger: "Fuck you guys, I'm goin'...back to my room."

Metal Man shrugs. "One out of a large battalion of people, I was."

Trigger leaves.

Digifanatic sends a text message to Trigger's Dex: "Ask Metal about possible restraining order on Sawyer."

Julian Sawyer: "...Is it jus' me, or did Trigger grow a mouth on 'em?"

Trigger answers back: "No fuckin' problem there."

Metal Man: "Beats me."

Dragoshi: "Heh. Interesting story there, boss..."

Gibby: "Maybe he idolizes you after all..." *Small chuckle. *

Aetos: "Speak for yourself. Since when did those words stop getting mysteriously beeped out?"

Julian Sawyer: "'Cause I don't remember him cursin' NEARLY this much when he first started here..."

Dragoshi: "...Yea."

The Void: "I just fired The Censor. He ate up too much of my money."

Scott Gibson: "The Medical Mecchanica is the one that decimated my people..."

Dragoshi: "What a bunch of bastards."

Julian Sawyer: "...Now you're jus' makin' stuff up."

Dragoshi: "Honestly, what was THEIR reason?"

Metal Man: "Eh. Why don't you say I make stuff up?"

Scott Gibson: "And how would you know Julian?!"

Digifanatic: *Still texted* "Prevent him from coming in contact with any other Quester unless it is an honest act of loyalty and/or assistance."

Gibby: "Here we go again..."

Metal Man: "I made stuff up five times in a row and you said nothing."

Scott Gibson sighs.

Metal Man takes out his dex and messages both Digi and Trigger. "I call the shots here, let me handle it."

Gibby turns away from the others and lies against the armrest of the couch... he looks like a little blue pillow! ^^

Digifanatic: *To Metal* "No problem. But it's a start."

Trigger answers back: sigh"Ok."

Digifanatic shuts off Dex, walks off.

Scott Gibson: "I'm... I'm just so... hellbent on saving lives that it gets to me now."

Metal Man: "A good thing. You can help with that attitude next mission. Why not save 10 people for every one which died?"

Dragoshi: "...Huh. That'd be... What, a thousand?"

Julian Sawyer: "We saved thousands a people plenty a times."

Scott Gibson: "I never had to worry about that before! Now I do! That's the problem."

Trigger puts his dex away, grabs a laptop out of his room and starts to look up stuff on the Racoon City Incident.

Scott Gibson: "The Medical Mecchanica is all robots."

Julian Sawyer: "...Robots..."

Scott Gibson: "So I never gave a though to their destruction."

Metal Man (GM): Trigger: Despite it being either reality or a video game in your realm, you see nothing on it in this one.

Dragoshi: "...Hmmm... Robots... Like this?" *Suddenly a deactivated miniature mech falls out a black rift.*

Julian Sawyer: "..."

Gibby takes a look at the mini mech.

Scott Gibson: "Not even close."

Julian Sawyer: "How the..."

Dragoshi: "...They're bigger than 12'6'?!"

Scott Gibson: "You've seen this Fooly Coolly Right?"

Julian Sawyer: "...God, you people don't make any SENSE."

Dragoshi: "Think so..."

The Void: "And you do?"

Gibby: "...I don't understand what 'Fooly Cooly' is..."

Dragoshi: "Who DOES, Void? Seriously."

Gibby scratches his head.

Julian Sawyer: "I'm the most normal person here!"

Aetos sighs. "Julian... no."

Metal Man looks left and/or right. "Uhhh... well. You have rocket shoes."

Scott Gibson: "That big blue droid that she fights in episode two... that's a hunter killer. The most heavily produced droid in the MM's inventory."

Metal Man: "And... a light saber..."

Gibby: "..."

Dragoshi: "..."

Gibby scratches his head again.

Scott Gibson: "Watch it and you'll learn."

Julian Sawyer: "An'? Garrick built those for me, an' I stole that off Gerald. Doesn't work anymore, I might add."

Gibby: "So... your world is really a TV show? ...Or is it the other way around?"

Scott Gibson gets up and walks over to Metal.
"I need to get my mind off things... any suggestions?"

Dragoshi: "...All I need is a massive firing range of these little guys..." *Motions to the minimech* "And I think they might stand a chance against one."

Metal Man: "Searching information can be distracting from such bad things."

Gibby: "You could play us one of your songs. I like them!"

Scott Gibson looks back at Gibby and smiles for the first time in awhile...

Gibby never heard Scott's songs before since such songs didn't really exist back where he came from.

Dragoshi: "Then again they break into song and dance at random."

Scott Gibson: "Yeah... might as well..."

Gibby: "Especially that DCAC group."

Scott Gibson walks over and finds a place to sit bringing his guitar up to his knee..."Gimmie a sec."
He begins playing a slow lilting tune...

Gibby lies back on the couch and listens.

Aetos wonders what to do. There's so much... but so little.

Scott Gibson's song is slow and somewhat melancholic yet still somewhat optimistic...

Gibby moves a fin up and down to try and keep with the rhythm, but fails miserably about five seconds into the song and thus improvises.

Scott Gibson plucks each string easily but there's something behind his moves that defy explanation...

Dragoshi: "...?"

Scott Gibson plays this tune for almost a minute... finally...
"There's a lady that is sure... that all that glitters is gold... and she's buying a stairway... to hea-ven... Oo-oo-ooh... and she's buying a stairway to heaven..."
*And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
He plays the rest of the song... finally after one last strum he sighs and opens his eyes again... he's been playing the entire song by feel from memory.*

Gibby claps like crazy when he finishes.

Dragoshi: *Claps* "Stairway to Heaven, right?"

Gibby: *Bravo! Encore! Etc!*

Scott Gibson: "...Yeah... That's the one..."

Aetos wonders how some of these people know these things, then shrugs.

Gibby: "Boy... I never got to hear these songs back where I came from. I sure missed out... think you can play these songs more often, Scott?"

Julian Sawyer: "...You're from another planet, right?"

Scott Gibson: "Sure."

Gibby: "Cool..."

Scott Gibson: "I am feeling a bit better now though."

Dragoshi: "Glad t'know that."

Gibby: "Well that's good. At least we learned something from all of this."

Scott Gibson smiles and starts up another tune... This one a but more upswing yet still bluesey...

Gibby: "There is no I... in Ninja. ...Wait..."

Julian Sawyer: "...It's the second letter, Gibby."

Gibby tries spelling Ninja.
"...Oh yeah! I knew that....
Uhh... There's no U in Ninja!
HA! I win..."

Julian Sawyer: "...Close enough."

Scott Gibson's fingers deftly move up the fingerboard hitting more complicated notes...

Gibby nods in agreement and goes back to listening to music.

Dragoshi: "I thought I was that there's no I O and U in team. Or was it just the other two minus the O?"

Scott Gibson: "...We-ll... there's a floodin' down in Texas...*Another bit of the riff*...All the telephone lines are down..."

Gibby: "...Well now you're just complicating things, Drag."

Dragoshi: "I suppose so."

Julian Sawyer: "Wait, so you're tellin' me you know just 'bout everythin' else, but you can't remember a figure of speech?"

Scott Gibson: "...We-ll... there's a floodin' down in Te-xas...*Another bit of the riff*...All the telephone lines are down... N' I've been trying tae call mah ba-by... lo-rd I can't get a single sound..."

Gibby: "Figures of speeches are too confusing... like that goose and egg thing. Did -anyone- understand that?"

Scott Gibson goes into a quick solo...

Julian Sawyer: "...Goose and egg?"

Gibby: "Ninja was talking about gooses and eggs, and how you wait for the egg to come out of the goose... something like that. It was weird."

Scott Gibson looks up and pauses..."Nope, didn't get that bit of Confucius babble." Then goes back to playing.

Gibby: "Good... I ain't the only one."

Julian Sawyer: "The Ninja doesn't make any damn sense. I've learned to stop listenin' to his 'proverbs."

Editor's Note: Truly, sage wisdom given The Ninja never managed to use actual sources of wisdom for his proverbs.

Gibby elbows Wolf. "Hey Wolf! Wake up!"

Dragoshi: "Eh. He has good Sake, though."

Wolfman: "...five more cycles..."

Julian Sawyer: "Sake? That stuff'll rot yo' mind AN' yo' gut."

Gibby elbows Wolf again.

Julian Sawyer: "How you think the Ninja got all those sayings?"

Gibby: "Come ooooon..."

Scott Gibson pauses again..."Speaking of which anyone know where I can get a good ol' bottle of Jack Daniels ol' number 7?"

Julian Sawyer: "What is with you people an' drinkin'?"

Wolfman: *Yawn* "...just don't get on me so fast... I'm not quite ready to give rides."

Gibby: "Uhh... ask John. He'd know."

Scott Gibson: "Helps me think when I'm playin'...loosens me up."

Julian Sawyer: "That stuff fucks you up... an' yeah, if you wanna kill your liver, ask the Ghost. He's the resident drunk."

Gibby: "Hey Wolf, what do you think of gooses and eggs?"

Wolfman: "What about them?"

Scott Gibson: "Not like alcohol's gonna kill him. I got it!
Ninja's proverb!"

Julian Sawyer: "...You actually GOT somethin' outta somethin' he said?"

Gibby: "Do you know any old sayings that involve gooses and eggs?"

Scott Gibson: "If you had a goose that laid golden eggs you'd want it to lay as many as possible in the shortest amount of time, right?"

Wolfman: "...what's good for the goose is good for the gander?"

Julian Sawyer: "Why are we even discussin' it?"

Gibby: "...What's a gander? I'm curious!"

Wolfman: "I don't know; it's a saying."

Scott Gibson: "But you can't force it to do that! You have to give it time and patience."

Gibby: "Huh..."

Julian Sawyer: "...An' this matters how?"

Gibby: "It doesn't... but it passed the time a little."

Aetos shrugs. "What to do... what to do..."

Wolfman: "Time always passes. That sounds like a redundant phrase."

Scott Gibson: "Music helps me think. I figured it out. I'll ask Ninja if it's right when he get's here."

Gibby: "Oh Wolf... you and your silly logic..."
*He chuckles a little.*

Julian Sawyer: "...Like I said, this matters how?"

Scott Gibson: "I'm about 99.99989% sure I've got it though."

Wolfman: "I'm not quite known for the greatest logic."

Scott Gibson: "Some things just click when your finger's are fluttering up the ol' rosewood, y'know."

Dragoshi: "I don't think ANY of us are, Wolf."

Gibby: "Yeah... we need to start thinking more. ...Somehow..."

Scott Gibson: "You guys ought to help me form a band. If nothing else it'd be something fun."

Julian Sawyer: "I'm jus' wondering why you spent 5 minutes tryin' to figure out a proverb we all deemed worthless in tha first place."

Gibby: "If we form a band, I wanna play the drums!"

Editor's Note: Famous last words.

Julian Sawyer: "...Gibby, two things."

Aetos lightbulbs.

Wolfman: "My excuse is the lack of a good intelligence chip. What is yours?"

Julian Sawyer: "One, you need HANDS to play the drums."

Gibby: "Eh? ...If I can carry a sword, I think I can carry drumsticks."

Scott Gibson: "Sounds logical to me."

Julian Sawyer: "Two, you're too short to reach all the pedals an' stuff down there."

Gibby: "So I play with -small- drums... OR I get a booster seat."

Scott Gibson: "If Animal for the muppets can be the drummer for Electric Mayhem then Gibby can play for our band."

Julian Sawyer: "Animal had HANDS."

Gibby: "...What's a muppet?"

Julian Sawyer: "Gibby's got... flaps."

Gibby: "FINS! They're FINS!"

Editor's Note: If you've seen various emoji from the internet these days, you know having fins does NOT prevent one from doing drum like motions!

Scott Gibson: "Eh? Never mind, I'd call it booster Gibby."

Julian Sawyer: "...How the hell DO you hold a sword, anyway?"

Aetos goes off to his secret room to perform his schemings.

Gibby: "...Uhh..."
*He unsheaths his sword and holds it up much like Kirby does.*

Scott Gibson: "I need rhythm guitar and bass guitar? Any takers?"

Gibby: "...I don't know..."
*He scratches his head.*

Julian Sawyer: "...Like I said, don't make a damn bit of sense..."

Gibby: "Never thought about it really... it just always worked."

Dragoshi: *To Scott*"I'll take bass."

Gibby: "I can pick up a lot of things actually... that's weird. I'll have to talk to Kirby about this."

Scott Gibson: "Gibby's got drums... Drag has Bass..."

Gibby puts his sword back.

Scott Gibson: "Now we need a rhythm guitarist. I can handle lead guitar and vocals."

Wolfman: "In any case... I need to recharge my power cells. G'night."

Gibby: "Nighty night!"

Scott Gibson: "Uh, later wolf..."

Dragoshi: "Night, Wolf."

Aetos pops in... he can't resist... "I can play Air Guitar!"

Wolfman: .oO(Band? I'll be a tech guy if required, but I'm not singing!)

Julian Sawyer: "...I'm gettin' pegged into this, ain't I?"

Aetos runs back to his secret chamber.

Gibby: -_-; "...A guitar made of air?"

Scott Gibson laughs.

Julian Sawyer: "...That's Ninja-level bad joke."

Dragoshi: "...Yep."

Scott Gibson: "!"

Gibby: "...No really, I don't get it. Does he -really- have an air guitar?"

Scott Gibson: "Ninja! He'd make an interesting rhythm guitarist."

Julian Sawyer: "Jus' forget it, Gibby..."

Gibby sighs. Modern things hurt his head.

Julian Sawyer: "An' I'll do the... other guitar, I guess. Seein' as how evry'one in this little circle's callin' a spot."

Scott Gibson: "Don't sweat it Gibby... you don't have to understand things so much as feel them."

Gibby: "...Feel them?"

Scott Gibson: "Ok then, Julian."

Julian Sawyer: "...But is you sure we need 3 guitars?"

Scott Gibson: "You don't play the instrument... you feel it... let your fingers do the work, they'll practically move on instinct."

Julian Sawyer: "How 'bout a little more variety?"

Gibby: "..."

Scott Gibson: "We have me on lead and Drag on bass we need rhythm."

Gibby looks at his fins.
"...I think I'm in trouble."

Julian Sawyer: "...Like I said, Gibby can't play drums."

Scott Gibson: "Unless we want to do something like Linkin Park with you Julian..."

Gibby: "...I wanted to play drums..."

Scott Gibson scratches his chin.

Dragoshi: "What's the song we're doin' anyway?"

Julian Sawyer: "...Who?"

Scott Gibson: "A rap/rock band from Earth."

Julian Sawyer: "...Still not followin'."

Scott Gibson: "Hm..."

Dragoshi: "Some band that's got this song called 'Crawling' that's used to make fun of a certain subculture of teenagers... I think"

Gibby: "...They must play the music that Scott plays."

Scott Gibson: "Yep. Similar."

Julian Sawyer: "But combin' Rap AN' Rock... don't sound like the two would mesh well."

Scott Gibson: "Let's give Gibby a shot at drums before we make this an exclusively humanoid band."

Gibby: "YEAH! I wanna try!"

Dragoshi: "At least it ain't country and rap."

Gibby: "...Wrap?"

Scott Gibson laughs!
"We're forming a rock band... now we need a band name...
Hm..."

Gibby: "Uhh... Super Smashers!"

Dragoshi: "Though, you'd have to be drunker than a goat-man that's drunk as skunk which makes it considerably more drunk than a skunk that's drunk as a Goat."

Julian Sawyer: "...What?"

Gibby: "Huh?"

Dragoshi: *Coughs.*

Julian Sawyer: "I'm gonna ignore you said that..."

Scott Gibson thinks hard... you can see it's straining his brain...

Gibby: "Anywho... Super Smashers! Short, sweet, and people will know us!"

Scott Gibson: "Wait... how bout'...Electric Questers?"

Gibby: "I don't have electric attacks though..."

Julian Sawyer: "...Electric Questers? I don't think so. They don't fit together..."

Dragoshi: "Yea..."

Scott Gibson: "Don't have to, it just has to be a catchy name. Hm..."

Julian Sawyer: "An' it ain't exactly catchy, now is it?"

Scott Gibson goes back to thinking...

Gibby: "I know! 'The Golden Rule'!" *He laughs his stupid laugh. *

Scott Gibson laughs...

Dragoshi: "...What'd the name of our first album would be if we went with that?"

Julian Sawyer: "Hah hah hah, very funny..." *Julian thinks, and thinks, and thinks some more...*

Scott Gibson: "Idle Hands...? How's that for a band name?"

Gibby thinks so much that he slips off the couch and falls on his head.
"...No hands."

Julian Sawyer: "Wouldn't that give the impression that we can't play?"

Dragoshi: "Yea. Wouldn't it?"

Scott Gibson thinks again..."Good point."

Gibby: "What about...'Metal's Maniacs!"

Julian Sawyer: "...Side Quest?"

Scott Gibson jerks up!
"I LIKE THAT JULIAN!"

Gibby: "...Side Quest?"

Dragoshi: *Just like those dudes in the Guinness commercial* "...Brilliant!"

Scott Gibson: "Short, sweet, catchy, We're the Quest-ers ...I like it!"

Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, we're the Questers, this is a side-project basically, Side Quest."

Gibby: "...Works for me!"
*He falls on his face.*

Scott Gibson: "Brilliant, Julian! Gentlemen, We... are... SIDE QUEST!"

Gibby: "Yay!"

Dragoshi: "Wahoo!"

Gibby gets up and walks around all dizzy-like.

Julian Sawyer: "Whatever... Gibbs, you okay?"

Gibby: "Woah... blood rush... I'm good..."

Scott Gibson: "First, we must take an oath to go through with this and do it all the way. We get instruments, practice, write songs, and finally we'll play for packed crowds in the Arena."

Gibby: "...Wait... we're really doing this?"

Scott Gibson: "WHO'S WITH ME!?"

Gibby: "...Uhh..."
*He rubs his head.*

Dragoshi: "...Woah. This'll be a fun project. I'm in if the others are."

Julian Sawyer: "An' then we gotta talk up Metal 'bout gettin' some special permits to leave the Stadium at any time so's we can tour... I am, I guess. Always wanted to be famous through 'nother medium than kickin' ass."

Gibby: "Wouldn't it distract us from our missions?"

Julian Sawyer: "Gibbs, we got a lot of down time."

Gibby: "...I guess...-would- be a good way to get to know more of these songs... Yeah ok, I'm in!"

Dragoshi: "Yea. I mean, we could prolly' do band stuff every other day and after missions if we have the time..."

Gibby: .oO(And this may just help us with our teamwork issue...)

Scott Gibson puts a hand toward the center of the group... "All for one, guys?"

Gibby: "Uhh... sure!"
*He puts his fin on top of Scott's hand.*

Julian Sawyer: "Don't see why not..." *Julian puts his hand in.*

Scott Gibson: "You in Drag?"

Dragoshi: "I'm in."
*He puts his claw in.*

Scott Gibson: "Gents, this is the beginning of something great. For those about to Rock... we salute you! Now for the hard part..."

Gibby: "...Hard part?"

Scott Gibson: "We need instruments..."

Dragoshi: "Yep."

Gibby: "...We would need Metal's permission I imagine."

Dragoshi: "Yea, prolly."

Gibby yawns.

Scott Gibson: "I have diagrams and blueprints of 20th century musical instruments for a rock band built into my guitar's computer... now we'll just have to make them."

Gibby: "Well... when we get the chance... we'll talk to him. For now, I'm pooped. Later guys..."

Julian Sawyer: "...A'ight, how the hell we gonna get the tools an' shit to make 'em?"

Gibby wipes his tired eyes and slowly makes his way back to his room for a good night's sleep.

Scott Gibson: "I'll talk to Metal about it. I need to catch some z's myself."

Dragoshi: "Same. 'Night" *Walks up to his room.*

Scott Gibson: "The materials and stuff won't be hard to get our hands on... wood and small amounts of metal and plastic. We'll work out the details later. I'm sackin'..."
*He heads for his room feeling much better about himself, his new band, and his future with the Questers.*
*Mutters* "Don't get much better than this..."

Julian Sawyer: "...Hope there's somethin' more than jus' Rock..." *Julian heads to his room as well.*

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